The precession of the equinox
The precession of the equinox is observed as the stars moving across the sky at the rate of about 50 arc seconds per year, relative to the equinox.
Conventional theory holds that this phenomenon is due to the gravity of the sun and moon acting upon the oblate spheroid of the earth causing the axis to wobble (the lunisolar theory). The alternative explanation advanced by the Binary Research Institute is that most of the observable is due to solar system motion, causing a reorientation of the earth relative to the fixed stars as the solar system gradually curves through space (the binary theory or model). We find the binary model better explains acceleration of the precession rate, better predicts changes in the rate, answers a number of solar system problems and has none of the paradoxes or inconsistencies associated with lunisolar precession theory.2
The Research section includes a summary of our basic work investigating the mechanics of precession, describes some of the problems with current theory and gives data to show that solar system motion is a better explanation for the observable known as the precession of the equinox. If you move your mouse over the word “Research” you will find this work broken into five further sections entitled: Introduction, Evidence, Calculations, Finding It and Papers and Articles. We invite you to browse.
For a tutorial on our alternate view of precession please begin with the “Introduction” and keep clicking the “Next” button and it will carry you through each section of the presentation.
If you have any comments or questions about this website or any of our work please feel free to contact us.
THE GREAT YEAR DOCUMENTARY
Just as the Earth’s spin on its axis causes day and night and it’s annual orbit around the Sun is responsible for the ongoing cycle of the seasons, what if there is some greater celestial cycle, lasting thousands of years, slowly influencing the rise and fall of civilization across the globe?
To many ancient cultures, the answers lie in the stars. In their view, time moved in a cyclical pattern, with human civilization and consciousness rising and falling as great ages came and went. Vedic scholars spoke of the Yuga Cycle, a great circular progression of ages; and Plato taught of a large cycle of time which would slowly return us to a “Golden Age”. He called this cycle: The Great Year.
The Great Year investigates commonalities in these beliefs and looks back into time seeking answers to questions that still loom over science today. How far back do humankind’s roots really go? What did the ancients know about the stars and their movements and what can we learn from them? How was the Precession of the Equinox, the slow progression of the stars across the sky over thousands of years, used to mark the rise and fall of these great ages by the ancients? Many cultures spoke of an unseen sun driving Precession and causing the cycle of this Great Year. Could there be an unseen companion to our Sun? The Great Year examines this theory and finds that perhaps these ancients were really onto something!
THE GREAT YEAR
Written by Walter Cruttenden and Geoff Patino
Directed by Robert Ballo
Narrated by James Earl Jones
Featuring:
Werner Dappen
Uwe Homann
Alice B. Kehoe
Ronald Mellor
John Anthony West
Brother Achalananda
© 2003 The Yuga Project, LLC
Predicting Changes in Earth Orientation
DYNAMIC VERSUS STATIC SOLAR SYSTEM MODEL
Long term predictions of changes in the earth’s orientation to VLBI sources have been historically unreliable. The IAU has found that current methods are “not consistent with dynamical theory”. Part of the problem appears to be that measurements of the precession observable are made to points outside the moving frame of the solar system yet do not account for motion of the solar system relative to those reference points. We have found that by separating the motions of the earth within the local frame (of the solar system), from the motion of the frame relative to external reference points (outside the moving frame), long term measurements of the earth’s changing orientation may be simplified and predicted with a higher degree of accuracy.
Could Barnard's Star Be Our Sun's Companion?
Spring 2023, Walter W. Cruttenden
The Fastest Star in the Sky – May Soon Be Our Closest Too!
In 1894, the Indian astronomer, Sri Yukteswar, wrote that our sun was part of a “dual star” system, with an unnamed companion. He pegged the orbit period at about 24,000 years saying the moving equinox (precession observable) was actually an artifact of the binary motion. He estimated apoapsis, when the two stars were farthest apart, at 500AD, and predicted periapsis, closest proximity, at about 12,500AD.
Barnard’s Star, a red dwarf, was unknown at the time, and not discovered until 1916. Thus 22 years after Yukteswar’s prediction, the fastest-moving star in the sky, invisible to the unaided eye, was found by Edward Emerson Barnard. Recently, its trajectory has been calculated to show a close approach to the sun in 11,800AD (+/-10%), which fits neatly with Yukteswar’s predicted date. In fact, Barnard’s Star will then be nearer to our sun than any current star!
For Yukteswar to be right about “our dual star” being the cause of the “backward motion of the equinoctial point”, that star must sit close to the celestial equator, otherwise, it could not produce the precession of the equinox observable (a sun moving through the constellations that straddle the celestial equator). I never thought about this much until realizing that Barnard’s Star sits right on the celestial equator with a declination of less than 5 degrees.
On the Precession of the Equinoxes
Winter 2022, Robert Augusto Riva
On the Precession of the Equinoxes
Eppur si muove1
The Copernican model of precession is in crisis.2 The phenomenon known as the precession of the equinoxes was first observed no later than the second century B.C. by Hipparchus, though it was not until Copernicus, nearly seventeen centuries later, that a mechanism was posited to explain that phenomenon.3 For Copernicus, explaining the precessional phenomenon was a necessary component of his larger heliocentric model of the Solar System. Centuries of advances in that larger model, in the theoretical underpinnings on which that model is based, and in the observational tools that helped guide and confirm those advances, have led to ever greater observational accuracy and explanatory power by the model overall. Those same advances, however, have revealed discrepancies between the model’s explanation of the precessional phenomenon, and the theoretical and observational underpinnings to which that explanation is ultimately accountable. Indeed, not only has a lasting solution to those discrepancies proven elusive, but contemporary attempts to refine the precessional aspects of the model have tended instead to underscore the discrepancies, pushing the Copernican model of precession to a crisis point, and perhaps even edging it towards the verge of a Kuhnian paradigm shift. This paper will attempt, in a non-technical manner, to describe the precession of the equinoxes and its current theoretical and observational underpinnings, to examine certain key difficulties in the current model of precession, and to summarize briefly an alternative model which, by introducing a purportedly missing observational reference frame, claims to improve on the current model in a way that saves both theory and observation from the current model’s precessional shortcomings.
What’s Tugging on our Solar System?
Something Bigger Than a 9th Planet Gravity Waves May Be Key!
Astrophysicists around the world, including Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin at Caltech, believe there is a large force tugging on our solar system. It has led them to speculate that a massive 9th Planet exists somewhere beyond the known planets.
The Binary Research Institute acknowledges there is large force tugging on the southwest underbelly of our solar system. We have been pointing this out for the better part of ten years in various papers and articles. These arguments on the BRI website show the precession observable, the Sun’s apparent lack of angular momentum relative to the planets, the unusual motion and position of unbound space probes, the elongated orbits of the minor planets, etc. are best explained if there is a very large object pulling on our solar system. But we do not think it is a 9th Planet. The force appears to be too great.
Earth Orientation:
Does Solar System Motion Matter?
Astrophysicists around the world, including Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin at Caltech, believe there is a large force tugging on our solar system. It has led them to speculate that a massive 9th Planet exists somewhere beyond the known planets.
The Binary Research Institute acknowledges there is large force tugging on the southwest underbelly of our solar system. We have been pointing this out for the better part of ten years in various papers and articles. These arguments on the BRI website show the precession observable, the Sun’s apparent lack of angular momentum relative to the planets, the unusual motion and position of unbound space probes, the elongated orbits of the minor planets, etc. are best explained if there is a very large object pulling on our solar system. But we do not think it is a 9th Planet. The force appears to be too great.
Something Big Out There
Does Solar System Motion Matter?
One recent discovery of interest is 2012VP113, nicknamed Biden, a dwarf planet about 450 km in diameter found to be orbiting our sun in a pattern quite similar to Sedna, one of the largest dwarfs, discovered in 2002. Mike Brown, an astrophysicist at Caltech, famed for killing Pluto by his discovery of so many of these minor planets, was the first to note that Sedna cannot exist in its current position without the gravitational help of some unseen body. The discovery of Biden only underlines this point and heightens the quest for a large mass affecting our solar system. But where and how big?
Two Spanish astronomers, Carlos and Raul de la Fuente Marcos, at the Complutense University of Madrid in Spain, have examined these distant dwarfs and noticed some unusual patterns. They have concluded that because Biden and Sedna are not large enough to exert much influence on each other, they must be kept in their place by not one but two large undiscovered planets that each has a mass of at least ten times that of the earth.
Articles
“There is something out there” By Mike Brown
“There is something out there” By Mike Brown Seven years ago this week I was preparing one of my favorite lectures for The Formation and
Harvard Astronomers Propose That Our Star System Used to Be Binary
Harvard Astronomers Propose That Our Star System Used to Be Binary “The Sun’s long-lost companion could now be anywhere in the Milky Way.” Victor Tangermann
Giant Stealth Planet May Explain Rain of Comets from Solar System’s Edge
Giant Stealth Planet May Explain Rain of Comets from Solar System’s Edge More scientists need a companion star – or at least a very big
Good News: Mainstream Science Finally Recognizes Need for a Companion
Good News: Mainstream Science Finally Recognizes Need for a Companion. Bad News. They Still Don’t Realize it’s Visible in the Hood. Stay Tuned. The sun
Wide binaries
Wide binaries There has been a great observational study done recently by Hernandez et al. (see: http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1873). They have looked at wide binary stars and found
The recordings and sample sounds of the planets, moons and rings of planets in our Solar System
The recordings and sample sounds of the planets, moons and rings of planets in our Solar System When we look at images or videos or
Thanks to the work of Karl Heinz and Uwe Homann of Canada, the brightest star in the sky, Sirius, is receiving renewed attention as an unconventional companion star candidate. Please take a look at our new page on this. We have tried to show the data in an easy-to-understand way.
"These observations clearly indicate that the so-called ‘precession of the earth’ is NOT a scientific fact, and that the Sirius system has a noticeable gravitational influence on our solar system."
Thanks to the work of Karl Heinz and Uwe Homann of Canada, the brightest star in the sky, Sirius, is receiving renewed attention as an unconventional companion star candidate. Please take a look at our new page on this. We have tried to show the data in an easy-to-understand way.
"These observations clearly indicate that the so-called ‘precession of the earth’ is NOT a scientific fact, and that the Sirius system has a noticeable gravitational influence on our solar system."
The oceans are the earth's lungs
"There is something big out there" by Mike Brown
“…the moment I first calculated the odd orbit of Sedna and realized it never came anywhere close to any of the planets, it instantly became clear that we astronomers had been missing something all along.”
The Great Year Adventures
by Walter Cruttenden
Join Tommy the Time Traveling Turtle and his friends as he visits the lost ages and get ready to learn some amazing things about space, time, history and the future!
www.thegreatyear.com
